Claim pillar
Tribunal Watch has indexed 27,877 UK employment tribunal cases involving breach of contract claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £4,044 (the largest £3,449,329) across 10,449 cases. Tribunals upheld 69% of the 12,054 decided breach of contract claims. These cases name 23,406 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Upheld | 8,375 | 55% |
| Dismissed | 3,679 | 24% |
| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |
| Struck out | 1,103 | 7% |
| Other | 428 | 3% |
| Settled | 128 | 1% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 321 | |
| 2018 | 636 | |
| 2019 | 3,862 | |
| 2020 | 5,472 | |
| 2021 | 3,723 | |
| 2022 | 3,561 | |
| 2023 | 3,377 | |
| 2024 | 2,991 | |
| 2025 | 2,656 | |
| 2026 | 1,278 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1404855/2018 | 5 June 2019 | In person For the | University of Southampton | £3,449,329 |
| 2202063/2014 | 8 November 2019 | Mr M Epstein For | Government of the State of Qatar | £388,920 |
| 1803164/2021 | 14 September 2022 | Ms E Tahir | National Grid UK Limited Heard: 2- 4 May 2023 Deliberations 26 May 2023 | £357,004 |
| 3304188/2022 | 28 July 2023 | Cyril Gregory | Petro Trace Limited | £340,213 |
| 2204168/2021 | 23 June 2022 | Elle Kim | Finablr Ltd | £279,566 |
| 1801339/2017 | 9 May 2018 | Miss S J Austin | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | £269,114 |
| 3320831/2021 | 30 November 2022 | Mr Joh Murphy | Remus Corporation UK Limited (in compulsory liquidation) | £234,410 |
| 3305627/2024 | 6 August 2025 | Mr Richard Cooke | Seven Resourcing Limited | £229,119 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Jurisdiction | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3312465/2020 | 20 September 2021 | Mr S S Nijjar | Nationwide Accident Repair Services Ltd (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2402609/2021 | 20 September 2021 | Steven Hughes | Mike Jones & Son Decorators Ltd | England & Wales | £22,161 |
| 1300774/2021 | 20 September 2021 | Mr J Murphy | Redde Northgate plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1802836/2021 | 20 September 2021 | Miss P Bensley | J & K Retail Limited | England & Wales | £4,336 |
| 2305001/2020 | 20 September 2021 | Mrs T Archer | Tattoo Medway Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £4,244 |
| 2415528/2020 | 20 September 2021 | Miss B Riley | Nationwide Crash Repair Services Ltd (in administration) Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | — |
| 3303090/2020 | 20 September 2021 | Mr Myers(counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the breach of contract caseload if breach of contractis tagged in its classification output. A single judgment frequently combines multiple claim types, so the same case may appear on more than one claim-type page. Per-claim outcomes come from the second-pass (LLM-assisted) extraction and are recorded for each claim a judgment decides; the success rate counts only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed). Award figures are taken from the remedy section of each judgment where present; cases without a quantified award — because the tribunal only determined liability, or because the remedy hearing is pending — are excluded from the compensation figures. Regional splits follow the tribunal's jurisdiction as recorded on gov.uk. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a prediction of any outcome; for any specific matter the gov.uk judgment PDF linked from each case page is the authoritative source.
| HS Realisations Limited (Formerly Hewden Stuart Ltd) |
| 27 |
| 15 | No appearance or | 27 |
| 16 | Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation) | 26 |
| 17 | Buckley Lamb Ltd | 25 |
| 18 | DHL Services Limited | 25 |
| 19 | Lidl Great Britain Limited | 25 |
| 20 | Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration | 23 |
| 2302192/2020 |
| 20 September 2021 |
| In person For the |
| Mr R Scupal (Consultant) |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 1806322/2020 | 20 September 2021 | Mr W Jackson | Nationwide Accident Repair Services Ltd (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1404961/2020 | 20 September 2021 | Mr R Boswell | Starspeed Training Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302422/2020 | 20 September 2021 | Ms S Crawshay-Williams (Counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2417909/2020 | 20 September 2021 | Mr K Vynne | Earthbound Landscapes Limited | England & Wales | £6,657 |
| 2415104/2019 | 17 September 2021 | J Stanley A Harding-Jones A Crompton J A Hampson K Kruger | First Source Solutions UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2203489/2021 | 17 September 2021 | Ms B Macedo | Privee Hospitality Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1804846/2020 | 17 September 2021 | Mr N Peterken (legal representative) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3324770/2019 | 17 September 2021 | Mr T Piskov | Virgin Media Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3310877/2020 | 17 September 2021 | Mr S Stanyard | 2Excel Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3325726/2019 | 17 September 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2403040/2021 | 17 September 2021 | Mr M Sephton | Thomas Berry t/a Bickershaw Lane Garage | England & Wales | — |
| 2204568/2020 | 17 September 2021 | Helen Parker Herman | Beauty Consultants Bureau (UK) LLP | England & Wales | £17,835 |
| 1802809/2021 | 17 September 2021 | Mr S Ahmed | Department for Work and Pensions | England & Wales | — |
| 1806171/2020 | 17 September 2021 | Miss M Tillotson | SMC Premier Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600361/2021 | 17 September 2021 | Ms L. Palmer | Shelley Norton Stage School Ltd HELD by: CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 4105349/2020 | 17 September 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND)5 Case No: 4105349/2020 Hearing Held by Cloud Video Platform (CVP) on August 2021 Employment Judge - A Strain Ms W Wallace | A Gul | Scotland | £4,779 |
| 2409150/2020 | 17 September 2021 | Kiddie Kloud Day Nursery Limited | Mrs SJ Sitford | England & Wales | — |
| 2206858/2018 | 17 September 2021 | E.T. Z (WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107708/19 Held on 17, 18, 19, & June and August 2021 Employment Judge J M Hendry Members: J McCaig E Coyle Ms E Borkowska | Represented by Mr A Hardman, Advocate The University of Aberdeen | Scotland | — |
| 4109074/2021 | 17 September 2021 | Ms E Arrighi | Newsquest Media Group Limited | Scotland | £2,222 |
| 4110384/2021 | 17 September 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4110384/2021 Mrs I Montgomery | Mandy Pattison | Scotland | £1,699 |
| 2409370/2020 | 16 September 2021 | Ms A Currie | Hilbre Care Ltd (in creditors’ voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2600825/2021 | 16 September 2021 | Mrs Mandy Beck | VPS PVT Limited | England & Wales | £14,743 |
| 1806713/2020 | 16 September 2021 | In person For the | Mr S Thompson (director) | England & Wales | £22,937 |
| 2304587/2020 | 16 September 2021 | Ebenezer Hayford | Towers Associates | England & Wales | — |
| 1406657/2020 | 16 September 2021 | Mr M Sellek, Solicitor For the | Mis R Hawes, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2601192/2021 | 16 September 2021 | Ms E Burden | Derby Servicesure Autocentre Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4105460/2020 | 16 September 2021 | Mrs Mengqi Yuan | Wangping Travel Limited | Scotland | £5,018 |
| 1807428/2020 | 16 September 2021 | In Person | — | England & Wales | £12,000 |
| 2303281/2020 | 16 September 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1305136/2020 | 16 September 2021 | Mr J Martin | HJ&R Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803747/2021 | 16 September 2021 | Ms Bilbao, solicitor First | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2307872/2020 | 16 September 2021 | In Person For the | Hever Resort Hotel Ltd | England & Wales | £4,673 |
| 3312938/2020 | 15 September 2021 | Miss Z Litviakova | Confidence Capital Limited | England & Wales | £1,418 |
| 1601456/2020 | 15 September 2021 | — | M Realisations 2020 Ltd (in Administration) and others | England & Wales | — |
| 2408559/2020 | 15 September 2021 | Mrs J Quilliam | DWS Realisations Limited (In creditors voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £15,312 |
| 3311543/2020 | 15 September 2021 | Miss J Brown | SIG Trading Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300870/2021 | 15 September 2021 | — | Cugno-Garrano v Doppiozero Ltd | England & Wales | £4,269 |
| 3315265/2020 | 15 September 2021 | In person. For the | Mr O Dear (Solicitor). | England & Wales | — |
| 1600232/2021 | 15 September 2021 | Mrs R Selby | Jodie Grove | England & Wales | £560 |
| 2308053/2020 | 15 September 2021 | Ms L Chapman, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3315464/2020 | 15 September 2021 | Miss H Murray | Atalian Servest Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2602783/2020 | 15 September 2021 | Mr Stephen Cresswell | Welbeck House Limited (in liquidation) | England & Wales | — |